If the supernova was behind or near the Sun, earthlings around 775 wouldn't have been able to detect it.

It's not possible to translate Russian into English and maintain the original depression. Nothing can possibly be more depressing than it can be in Russian.

Amen brother.

And the more your company paid for a product, the more likely you aren't allowed to use anything else. "Why would we use a *free* product, when we have this overblown expensive product that doesn't work?"

So, yes they do follow up and correct their mistakes.

When I give someone goods in exchange for a promise of dollars latter, virtual money is created. When they pay the debt, to me the virtual money changes to real money.

The supply of real money goes up when goverments print more. Suddenly everyone's real money is devauled by a bit, but as more virtual money is created, the real money regains value.

The whole thing collapses when everyone's faith in their virtual money simultaneously falls. Then any extra real money printed by the government devalues everyone else's real money by more than a bit, and inflation sets in.

Launch of nuclear weapons? See Colossus: The Forbin Project http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/, Wargames http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/, and others.

Realistically speaking, any action that results in death or large scale destruction will result in real war.

The calculation you have to make is "What's the minimum number of people in Iran are required to launch the suicidal act?", then "How many people are currently, really, in charge?" Even if the people of Iran wouldn't launch a suicidal attack, it's at least plausible that the few people that could, would. Then, there's the accidental aspect. If Iran doesn't verifiably have nuclear weapons, then a missle heading south will cause some grief, but it won't start WWIII. If on the other hand, Iran is know to have many deployed nukes, and a missile is headed to Tel Aviv, there's no time to determine if it will actually get to the city, or if it's armed. Israeli officials will have to make a decision right away.

Not-for-profit just means that there aren't shareholders that expect a payout. The executives can get paid all they can get away with, and it still be not-for-profit.

There may be precious little left over for the real artists.

If the kids can't dance, I guess they'll have to screw...

Nothing I do could ever be considered "dancing", so I guess I'm safe.

I guess now we will have the dance police ready to come down hard on scoflaws.

Of course the kids will just make up something new to do to music that no one over 30 would ever call dancing. I propose we call it MusicF*cking.